AMD Geode driver

[anewangelfades]

Hello, and congratulation for this wonderful new version of DSL!
I have just a little request: antiX and its derivatives like this one are (to the best of my knowledge) the only distros who still work on non PAE systems.
I have two netbooks running on an AMD Geode LX-800 CPU, the sam CPU on which the famous OLPC was based on.
I think that it would be really great if they worked "out of the box".
The problem is that the Geode driver in the repositories is an old version which doesn't work with 5.x or 6.x kernels, but just with 4.x kernels, and booting on such machines is incredibly hard, since also a cli boot is really hard to obtain.
Everything is duly explained here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driv...deo-geode/
but basically, for everything to work properly, some particular grub options are needed, as well as the latest 2.18.1 driver.

Do you think it's possible to integrate this in the ISO? I see that in the past xserver-xorg-video-intel was included to support native resolution on some EEE PCs and other machines, and I believe that giving a new life to hardware such as OLPC XO-1 and similar low-budget PCs would be really important.

Thank you in advance!

[grindstone]

Can't speak for DSL, but my hunch is that, because 4.X no longer receive security patches, that dependency might relegate this effort to a "spin" as opposed to baseline inclusion.

So you've already done the work and got it going, right? Would you consider making a snapshot for anyone else who may need one? I have several questions but am short on time here today. For now, there's a cli-snapshot tool in the repos that still works for me to make iso's if you want to try.

You are likely to be the resident Geode v1 expert If you care to document a bit more what your process was in the interim maybe some of it might be scripted for others, etc.

[anewangelfades]

Can't speak for DSL, but my hunch is that, because 4.X no longer receive security patches, that dependency might relegate this effort to a "spin" as opposed to baseline inclusion. 

So you've already done the work and got it going, right?  Would you consider making a snapshot for anyone else who may need one?  I have several questions but am short on time here today.  For now, there's a cli-snapshot tool in the repos that still works for me to make iso's if you want to try. 

You are likely to be the resident Geode v1 expert   If you care to document a bit more what your process was in the interim maybe some of it might be scripted for others, etc.

Hello,
sorry I just saw your answer now...
I managed to get it working with antiX, but not with DSL yet.
That's why I was asking if it's possible to include just the xf86-video-geode version 2.18.1 driverin the ISO: in this way those old netbooks should boot automatically.

[grindstone]

Understood, thanks. Saw your post upstream. Just a head's-up, it's maybe 1 day after anti announced that he's away for a couple weeks so, while there may be answers, not sure there will be a definitive one in his absence. My hunch was that few would do that work except possibly us so that, if you had the procedure cooked-down that we might script some/all of the work. Those guys are super-busy keeping-up with everything Debian is breaking upstream but they're also hard workers and helpful so who knows. Watching, too. Good thought to ask there.